Up to 80% of African data is hosted offshore, according to a 2024 industry estimate.
Our businesses, institutions and people are creating a digital future whose foundations too often sit beyond the continent. As AI becomes part of how we work, learn and build, the question grows more urgent. Where will Africa’s intelligence live, and who will have the capacity to support it?
We believe data sovereignty begins with the ability to choose. African institutions should be able to host critical workloads close to the communities they serve, with meaningful control over how their data is stored, protected and used. That choice needs dependable infrastructure at home.
MANTRACORE is our commitment to building that foundation. From Jos, we are pursuing a home for sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure, connecting African ambition with the capacity to realise it.
The opportunity extends beyond hosting data. It includes the skills, institutions and businesses that grow around the infrastructure. The more capacity we build here, the more of that value Africa can create and retain.
This will require patient capital, rigorous execution and partners who share our conviction. We are building for a future in which African founders and institutions can reach further because the foundations beneath them are stronger.
Africa’s digital future deserves a home.
Our work begins in Jos.
Johnpaul Nwobodo
Founder & CEO, MANTRACORE
Offshore-hosting estimate from ADCA & Oxford Business Group, Data Centres in Africa Focus Report, April 2024, p. 16. Read the source ↗
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